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With that, let's go ahead and get started with the episode.

Music Let's go ahead and get started with the episode. Hey, everybody, and welcome the classical stuff you should know.

We're a podcast about the classical world, about books and philosophy and sometimes other stuff.

What we want to talk about? Mostly books and philosophy. Sometimes other stuff what we want to talk about mostly

mostly books and philosophy sometimes education mostly that my name is a j hanenberg i'm joined by

thomas magby hello and graham donaldson hi and we're coming at you from sunny austin texas where it's

cold out though it's been crazy it's been like freezing at night not right now it's probably 64

degrees out of no no it's uh it's almost it's hovering at freezing it's gonna be right now. It's probably 64 degrees. No, no. It's, uh, it's, it's, it's almost, it's hovering at freezing. It's going to be cold this weekend. That's great. Well, I, I, I have done a podcast about, uh, Genghis Khan. Uh, and I think, I think, really it's my paternal, uh, aura that Graham is drawing from because he's about to, about to give us the story of Genghis Khan's son, right?

So he's taking my, you know, he's riding my wave, really.

I establish the kingdom and Graham is just going to try to manage that kingdom, I think.

Yeah, you carve it out through bloodshed and misery and I turned it into a functioning society.

That sounds about right. No, we're going to be looking at, we're not really looking at Kubla Khan. I mean, we're looking at a poem called Kubla Khan. Oh, we're not actually looking at the historical character? No, we're not. I expected a completely different episode. My disappointment cannot be measured. No, we're going to be talking about poetry, your favorite.

Hey, I converted, remember?

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